‘O, Canada… what happened?
Mark Donnelly, the singer of the Canadian national anthem at Vancouver Canucks hockey games since 2001, was fired for singing at the Christmas Freedom Rally in Vancouver.
Sportsnet Canada reported that Donnelly appeared before the crowd and slammed the city’s “draconian lockdown protocols.”
“What was originally sold as 15-day hunkering down Sprint for the common good has turned into a 10-month marathon from hell, where the finish line is constantly being moved further into the distance,” he said. He told the crowd that “as someone known for singing our great national anthem, I’m standing up against what I feel is tyranny, plain and simple.”
Donnelly, 60, told the outlet that sports figures and entertainers are allowed to stand for anything “as long as it supports the narrative. You can support rioting, looting, destruction of livelihoods and reputation, but take a position against the narrative and you are worthy of exile or worse.”
Residents across the country have begun to lash out at coronavirus restrictions they say unfairly target places of worship and businesses deemed to be “non-essential.”
The Church of God Steinbach was fined $5,000 last week for holding an in-person service that was reportedly in violation of the Manitoba province’s public health order. Officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police blocked a drive-in service last weekend.
“God has given us the right to worship Him together and He wants to see His people united,” Henry Hildebrandt, the senior pastor, told the Christian Post. “It seems like we’re living in a different Canada. It’s very heartbreaking to me.”
TRENDPOST: As we have forecast in our “Top 10 Trends for 2021: Church of Freedom, Peace & Justice,” a massive, subverted sector of the population that fully oppose authoritarian dictators who have locked down their lives will unite under a religious umbrella.
Open to all faiths whose God professes liberty, love, peace, joy, and justice for all, it will usher in a universal religion of the highest order.
